Charlie's Angels Featuring Jason Samuels Smith October 22, 2009

In less than a decade, Emmy award-winning choreographer and hoofer Jason Samuels Smith has emerged as a leader in the tap dance world. For the New York premiere of his new dance work, 'Charlie's Angels,' he considers the complex intersections between inspiration, re-interpretation, and creative process, using Charlie Parker's revolutionary harmonic ideas and tonal vocabulary as a point of departure. Revisiting Parker's early influential recordings, Samuels Smith relates them to the history of tap dance, as well as to his personal development as a choreographer.